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Back in 2023, Kodansha USA Publishing announced that all 44 volumes of the globe-trotting wine-tasting manga, The Drops of God by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto, would get digital distribution. That announcement came as the live-action TV series was announced, which has a second season currently underway in 2026.
An anime adaptation was announced in November 2026 and saw an April 10th, 2026, debut for its two-cour run. Kenji Itoso is directing it from scripts supervised by Yu Mitsubri. Takehiro Suwa is handling character designs with Satelight and YANCHESTER on the animation production.
With the series underway, Crunchyroll saw an April 24th, 2026, premiere date for the English dub as directed by Jason Lord from the adaptation by Jared Smith and Kieran Flitton.
The latest update is a pair of new cast additions that have been confirmed with:
The English cast includes:
- Shizuku voiced by Christopher Guerrero
- Miyabi voiced by Taylor Shaye
- Tomine voiced by Reagan Murdock
- Yutaka voiced by Mike Smith
- Fujieda voiced by Christopher Caz
- Kiryu voiced by Maganda Marie
- Mishima voiced by Alex Hanback
- Morikubo voiced by Aaron Roberts
- Yoshida voiced by Greg Dulcie
The Japanese cast includes:
- Takuya Satō as Issei Tomine
- Kazuya Kamenashi as Shizuku Kanzaki
- Maaya Uchida as Miyabi Shinohara
- Banjō Ginga also plays Yutaka Kanzaki
- Yuko Kaida as Ryoko Kiryu
- Shinshu Fuji as Shiro Fujieda
- Misa Watanabe as Maki Saionji
- Yuya Uchida as Soichiro Mishima
- Jin Urayama as Robert Doi
The series features HOKUTO performing the opening theme song “hate you? love you?” while Maaya Uchida is on board for the ending theme song “Kami no Shizuku.”
Originally released digitally through the comiXology Original line of exclusive content, The Drops of God digital volumes first debuted on comiXology and Kindle in October 2019 and completed all 44 volumes for the first time in English in May of 2021. Now, the series is getting a print release once again with the first omnibus volume, clocking in at 434 pages, arriving from Vertical Comics on November 18th, 2025. Created and written by Tadashi Agi with artwork by Shu Okimoto, The Drops of God has had an unprecedented impact on the international wine market and the various wines featured throughout the live-action TV series.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: The award-winning comic about wine that has been a hit not just all over Asia but also in France! Learn about legendary bottles as well as affordable secrets while enjoying a page-turner that’s not about superheroes but people with jobs to keep. When world-renowned wine critic Kanzaki passes away, his will reveals that his fortune of a wine collection isn’t bequeathed as a matter of course to his only son, who in a snub went to work sales at a beer company. To come into the inheritance, Shizuku must identify—in competition with a stellar young critic—twelve heaven-sent wines whose impressions the will describes in flowing terms
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© 亜樹直・オキモト・シュウ・講談社／TVアニメ「神の雫」製作委員会
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